This is a series, I on the world, Behind the Black. It is happy anniversary behind the black.

14 years of Bob Zimmerman being discerning about big space and commercial space.

We begin with big space commercial space together because there's trouble on ISS, there's trouble at Boeing.

These things might not connect, but Bob gives me permission to ask

simple questions. Bob, a very good evening to you. The subscriptions and

donations are welcome for your

site because we're watching a melodrama spill out. It's not just Starliner

which is attached to the ISS with two crew on board ISS waiting for return.

It's the whole concept of Boeing, the manufacturer.

Boeing is now in the news because of criminal trial possibility.

It's criminal having to do with its aircraft.

And yet, Starliner has been an example

that you've explicated for some time, years perhaps, of either bad luck or bad engineering

or just bad attitude as the inventors and crew and builders put it together that it is stuck on

ISS waiting for return is not the beginning of the

beginning of the puzzle.

I go back to its the blue tape Bob, the blue tape that was used in the star liner that was discovered after a mission to be flammable.

That's my example of this is no way to run an

airline or a spacecraft. What is this what is your thinking about the connection

between Boeing the company that's in trouble and the star liner the crew that's on I assess

Let's first get to the story Boeing because of its 737 max, it had software in that plane when it was first released

that caused crashes, literally caused crashes that killed 346 people total.

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